It’s only been a week since camp has broken with one pretend game played, and already this feels interminable with 5 more to go, starting tonight with the untelevised affair in Detroit. Is it April yet?
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Game Time: 7:30PM Central
TV/Radio: CSN+ (ch 285 HD), no radio
Big Money Rustlas: WIIM, A2Y
If the lines around the block from the United Center of weirdos and the unemployable yesterday afternoon and evening for a scrimmage weren’t indication enough, hockey is back. At least it kind of is as the slate of pre-season dry humps kicks off tonight against the visiting Wings.
These days, I’m basically piggy-backing off the better hockey writers around because it’s late August and I can’t be bothered to think of anything myself. That will change next week when the calendar flips to September and we can really start to preview the upcoming season. It doesn’t feel like the season is about to start until the NFL starts, at least to me. But nothing gets you ready for the start of hockey season like Kaner in a Bears jersey, right?
So today, it’s basically a reaction to Down Goes Brown’s study of why scoring was so batshit crazy in the 80’s and then by the mid-90’s had completely arrested. Sean provides a multitude of reasons, from the difference in goalies, expansion, rules-relaxations, defensive systems that became successful, and all of these are correct in their own way.
That’s not really why I’m here today though, as I’d more like to look at whether or not there needs to be a clamoring for something of a return to those free-scoring ways.
Summer pictures of Kane surface 😉 Chicago Tribune
People like Ted Nolan: TSN
We wish you a speedy recovery: PI
So they had to do this: Sportsnet.ca
Is this really suprising?? PD
Fro-Yo back in the Peg: Chicago Tribune
Jimmy Hayes back in South Beach: CBS
YES!! The Score
This could get interesting: TSN
Non-hockey related but awesome: LA Times
